Joe Biden doctor's sheepish reply when confronted about the president's mental acuity

Joe Biden's expert gave a puzzling consequence erstwhile asked if he was nan president's expert aft being ambushed connected the White House lawn.

Kevin O'Connor was stepping on nan driveway trying to get astir anti-Israel protestation blockades erstwhile reporters asked if he was nan president's doctor.

“I don’t know. I don’t know,” O'Connor replied while briskly walked toward nan White House driveway.

The erstwhile US Army medic said Biden's wellness and intelligence cognition were 'excellent' and he saw nary request to springiness nan president a cognitive test.

O'Connor, known to Biden and others astir nan White House simply arsenic 'doc', has been a portion of nan president's life for much than a decade and was a cardinal fig to nan family erstwhile Biden's boy Beau was dying of cancer.

He answered successful very fewer words connected Thursday arsenic he tried to fig retired really to walk nan heightened information during Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit.

O'Connor has ne'er fixed an question and reply aliases property convention since Biden took agency successful January 2021, aliases moreover earlier that, and seldom makes statements.

When confronted by nan New York Post on Thursday and asked if he was Biden's doctor, he initially replied 'I don't know. I don't know' earlier confirming he was.

Smiling arsenic he said 'it's excellent' erstwhile asked really Biden's wellness was, he past adeed that he would 'probably not' little nan property astir it.

'I dream not,' O'Connor replied erstwhile asked if that could alteration earlier nan extremity of Biden's word successful January. 

The newsman asked: 'Is location a logic you didn't execute a cognitive trial connected him?' to which O'Connor explained, 'We don't request to. He's present each day'. 

O'Connor said location was thing to speculation that nan president was suffering from Parkinson's disease, insisting 'no, he's good'.

He besides denied White House visits by Parkinson's master Kevin Cannard had thing to do pinch concerns Biden whitethorn person nan condition.

'He's seen him 3 times, my missive was clear,' he said, referring to 2 weeks agone erstwhile he explained Cannard only saw Biden for yearly beingness exams.

'Dr Cannard was nan neurological master that examined President Biden for each of his yearly physicals,' he wrote successful nan letter.

'President Biden has not seen a neurologist extracurricular of his yearly physical.'

Cannard came to nan White House residence session 8 times betwixt July 2023 and March 2024, gathering with Megan Nasworthy, who coordinates wellness checkups for nan statesmanlike family 7 of those times.

His eighth sojourn was to speak with O'Connor and Dr John Atwood, a cardiologist astatine Walter Reed National Military Medical Medical Center, where Cannard besides works.

'Prior to nan pandemic, and pursuing its end, he has held regular neurology clinics astatine nan White House Medical Clinic successful support of nan thousands of active-duty members assigned successful support of White House operations,' O'Connor wrote. 

'Many subject unit acquisition neurological issues related to their service, and Dr. Cannard regularly visits nan WHMU arsenic portion of this General Neurology practice.' 

Speculation astir Biden's wellness accrued aft his disastrous June 27 statement capacity against Donald Trump while he battled a bad cold.

Subsequent nationalist events did not allay concerns and connected Sunday he dropped retired of nan title but vowed to enactment successful agency until his word ended.

Doctors who watched Biden 's reside to nan federation connected Wednesday night pointed out that nan reside was comparatively short - conscionable 11 minutes - and nan president publication exclusively from a teleprompter, 

This made it difficult to make a definitive appraisal of his intelligence and beingness well-being.  

Dr Ernst von Schwarz, a cardiologist in California, said Biden's 'dry mouth, fixed stare, very little... manus movements and gestures... could beryllium signs of cognitive decline' caused by his age, aliases 'a neurodegenerative condition' specified arsenic dementia.

But they could besides beryllium owed to medication, nan expert told DailyMail.com.